Re: A 'Light' Fighter To Out-Perform the Air Force's Tank-Killer

Dan wrote:
hcobb wrote:
On Aug 27, 1:10 pm, "David E. Powell" <David_Powell3...@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
Will it best the A-10? Not on payload, probably not on survivability.
I believe that "In some flight ebvelopes it could climb faster" but
then, it depends on load conditions, etc.

Yeah, but the A-10 hogs too much Ti that we have to buy from the
Soviets, er Russians, instead of extracting from the same sources we
make housepaint out of.

-HJC

What about A-10 "hogs" titanium that must be bought from post Soviet Russia? Last A-10 came off the assembly line in 1984.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

And the A-10 is helpless even against a near sonic subsonic attack plane. Without complete Air Superiority, the A-10 can't operate.
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